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herron Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Heron.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEaráin ‘descendant of Earán’, a personal name from a diminutive of earadh ‘fear’, ‘dread’, ‘distrust’.
  3. Spanish (Herrón): unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of herron Families in the US in 1920
Number of herron families
 138-274
 47-137		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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